Integral Spirituality

Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World is being widely called the most important book on spirituality in our time. Applying his highly acclaimed integral approach, Ken Wilber formulates a theory of spirituality that honors the truths of modernity and postmodernity—including the revolutions in science and culture—while

incorporating the essential insights of the great religions. He shows

how spirituality today combines the enlightenment of the East, which

excels at cultivating higher states of consciousness, with the

enlightenment of the West, which offers developmental and psychodynamic

psychology. Each contributes key components to a more integral

spirituality.

On

the basis of this integral framework, a radically new role for the

world’s religions is proposed. Because these religions have such a

tremendous influence on the worldview of the majority of the earth’s

population, they are in a privileged position to address some of the

biggest conflicts we face. By adopting a more integral view, the great

religions can act as facilitators of human development: from magic to

mythic to rational to pluralistic to integral—and to a global society

that honors and includes all the stations of life along the way.